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| I'm not comfortable talking about myself. My mother likes to talk about her son, but she doesn't know too much about Ham radio. Well ... I did write several "About the Author" pages, so I guess I can do it here, too. If this gets too 'icky' go surf the telegraph pictures. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Here's the 4.5 foot dish. It was the beginning of Radio Astronomy for me. I, now, am installing two 8 foot dishes for higher gain and lower noise (Oh, they call that signal to noise ratio, hummm). More to report in the Spring of 2004. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| This dish is in an area of the back yard appropriately called "Tiggieland." That's where she hangs out. Tig thinks I like to spend a lot of time with her, but really, I'm just experimenting with the dish. Pepper, on the other hand, thinks that coax cable is a member of the snake family. Bad kitty...bad, bad kitty. Isn't my picture the cute one? |
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| About me. Well it isn't very interesting. My name is Bob Betts, N1KPR. I'm an electro-mechanical designer of 40 years, mostly in the audio industry, and I own a modest machine shop where I restore or build telegraph keys. I have worked as a Volunteer Examiner at local test sessions, held theory and code classes, and been active in ARES. I'm a past president of The Stratford Amateur Radio Club (SARC), W1ORS in Connecticut, have held the office of Communications Officer and am presently Secretary. I've written four books for Amateur Radio students, a Morse code mneumonics course for the physically challenged. I wrote a bibliographical white paper on the interesting Shakespeare vs. Francis Bacon contoversy, and a book on the history of Railroad Telegraphy from 1857 to the early 20th Century. I've had several articles on telegraph keys and examples from my collection published in CQ magazine (Dave Ingram), CQ Calendars (Joe Veras), Morsum Magnificat (UK), and The Vail Correspondent (Tom French, MA, USA). I edited and published a 514 page book on a rock band, and publish their fan magazine, but that's another Web site. I've also been active in various Cryptological Societies. I served in the US Army Signal Corps as a Communications Specialist and as a Squad leader with the Fourth Infantry Division in Vietnam. I share our home with my wife Maryann and daughter Stacy, three cats, a ferret, four snakes, a big lizard, various lesser critters, three microwave (Ham radio) dishes, a decent antenna farm, 48 shrubs which require trimming every July, several very big leaf-dropping maple trees, 1,400 square feet of snow-collecting driveway, and about 15,000 square feet of lawn that requires mowing about 33 times a year. Need to know more? E-mail me. Bored? Sorry. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Here's me at the Stratford (CT) club, SARC, W1ORS, operating on Field Day, 2003. Photo courtesy of Bob G., W1RPG/W1ORS Web site. On the right is Stripes. She's not at all like the cats above - she's the oldest and "she's the boss" and everyone knows it. She doesn't give a hoot about my Ham radio activities, but she's my only company during long CW sessions and a great friend. |
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